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...religious context and those engaging in a descriptive examination of the roles that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories.” Harvard students are famous for allowing certain categories of learning outside their comfort zones to slip into obscurity??witness English concentrators filing into “The Magic of Numbers”—but this should not happen to religion...
...tenure as president, Summers was dogged by his insistence on speaking freely about controversial issues. And while on sabbatical this year, he has not receded into obscurity??despite having his burger taken off the menu at Bartley’s Burger Cottage. He has kept up a busy schedule of world-wide speaking appearances, penned columns for the Financial Times, and took a job in finance, all while maintaining a quiet presence on campus. The difference is the pressure and the expectations—colleagues say that Summers has been able to shed the weight of his high...
...Prof. Norwood himself, he was not “obscure” prior to the conference, nor has he “returned to obscurity?? as Grynbaum erroneously asserted. Norwood is the author of three critically-acclaimed books on American history (one of which won the Herbert G. Gutman Award in American Social History) and numerous scholarly articles, and he is co-editor of the prestigious Encyclopedia of American Jewish History. During the three months following the conference, when Grynbaum seems to think that nothing further happened on this issue, Prof. Norwood was completing a major scholarly essay...
Some students are sure to buy tickets to this mediocre obscurity??s show. But we know one thing without a doubt: it ain’t us, Bob. It ain’t us you’re looking...
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